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An electronic nose can tell pears and apples apart
May 8, 2013 ? Swedish and Spanish engineers have created a system of sensors that detects fruit odours more effectively than the human sense of smell. For now, the device can distinguish between the odorous compounds emitted by pears and apples.
Researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV, Spain) and the University of G?vle (Sweden) have created an electronic nose with 32 sensors that can identify the odours given off by chopped pears and apples.
"The fruit samples are placed in a pre-chamber into which an air flow is injected which reaches the tower with the sensors which are metal oxide semiconductors that detect odorous compounds such as methane or butane," explained Jos? Pelegr? Sebasti?, UPV researcher at the Gandia campus and co-author of the paper.
Next, software is used to gather real time data and the information is processed through classification algorithms. The results can be viewed on a 3D graph which distinguishes between the pear and apple scores.
This study, which is published in the 'Sensors and Actuators A' journal, is the starting point for new research the team is already involved in to develop multisensor systems that increase the capacity to differentiate complex mixtures of volatile substances.
"One example would be the wine making sector," Pelegr? commented, "where an electronic nose capable of distinguishing the quality or type of grape or recognising the vintage a wine belongs to would be very useful."
Other lines of research focus on the field of biomedicine. Some studies have shown that trained dogs can detect cancerous tumours, such as lung cancer, by smelling a person's breath.
If this is true, and an electronic nose can detect which substances the animals recognise, then we could diagnose the disease earlier and increase patients' survival rates.
Source: http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/top_news/~3/jHOnI0N0aN4/130508092827.htm
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What A First Person View of a Lightsaber Duel Looks Like
If lightsabers ever become real, and let's be honest some genius will dedicate his entire life into making that happen, I hope the entire world will be well practiced in how to handle them. Sure the ballet of Star Wars characters fighting in light sabers looks great (or ridiculous), but when you get an up close view on the sword fight? The whole world will be missing at least one of their hands.
The video of a GoPro First Person Vader duel is made by The Stunt People. [The Stunt People via The Awesomer]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/what-a-first-person-view-of-a-lightsaber-duel-looks-lik-497066320
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Giant Snail Menaces Tex. Neighborhood
May 8, 2013 1:08pm
If you live in Houston and you have a garden and you happen to see a giant snail and that giant snail begins oozing towards you ? run. Or walk away slowly.
Just don?t touch it.
The sluggish mollusk, recently photographed in the backyard of a quiet Houston neighborhood, has been tentatively identified as a Giant African Snail and wildlife researchers say it?s dangerous.
?The snail harbors a deadly parasite known as rat lungworm, which is a form of meningitis,? said Lori Williams, the executive director of the National Invasive Species Council, the coordinating body for the federal government on invasive species.
Williams warned humans not to go near the snail and said that people who do touch it need to wash their hands thoroughly.
What the insidious creature lacks in speed it makes up for in fertility. It reproduces rapidly and can lay 1,200 eggs a year. If confirmed as a Giant African snail, Williams noted that it?s unlikely there is just one.
The Giant African Snail has been spotted in Texas. Photo credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images.
The softball-sized beast is also a considerable pest. It has been known to munch its way through stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants. Its pointy shell is so sharp is can blow out car tires if run over.
First spotted in the U.S. in southern Florida in the 1960s, Williams said it took more than a decade and $1 million to eradicate but has recently been rediscovered in the sunshine state.
This is the first known possible spotting of the giant snail in Texas. It?s a mystery how it got there.
Its current location is also a mystery. Ironically, the snail slipped away and for the moment, has eluded capture. Local wildlife officials are sending teams into the area to search for it.
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Source: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2013/05/08/giant-snail-menaces-houston-neighborhood/
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Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Obama administration backs out of appeal over new contraceptive mandate
Government lawyers give up their challenge to a temporary injunction in a Bible publisher's lawsuit and will battle the issue in another pending case at the appeals court.
President Barack Obama and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius leave the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, after the president announced the revamp of his contraception policy requiring religious institutions to fully pay for birth control, February 2012.
Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP / File
EnlargeA federal appeals court in Washington has granted a request by the Obama administration to back out of an appeal involving a publisher of Bibles who is refusing for religious reasons to provide contraceptives to his employees under the president?s new health-care mandate.
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Mark Taylor and Tyndale House Publishers sued the Obama administration on grounds that the Affordable Care Act?s mandate concerning provision of contraceptives violates the publisher?s sincerely held religious beliefs.
The ACA requires that employers provide cost-free contraception for their workers ? including the so-called morning after pill, which some critics say is an abortion-inducing drug.
Fifty-nine lawsuits on behalf of nearly 200 plaintiffs have been filed by individuals and companies across the nation charging that the new health-care mandate violates basic tenants of religious liberty and conscience.
The dispute is developing into a major showdown pitting the scope of religious freedom against government power to regulate conduct of the faithful.
The plaintiffs are asking the courts to block the Obamacare contraception mandate. Many of the cases are reaching the appellate level where judges in the Tenth, Sixth, and Third Circuits have denied requests for temporary injunctions. Judges in the Seventh, Eighth, and District of Columbia Circuits have granted temporary injunctions.
The Tyndale House case arrived at the District of Columbia Circuit after a federal judge in Washington last fall issued an injunction blocking the Obama administration from enforcing the contraception mandate against the Bible publisher and his company.
Administration lawyers had argued that for-profit companies can?t claim religious rights. Even if they could, government lawyers said, the decision whether to use contraceptives belongs to employees, not the employer.
The administration also argued that any burden on religious views would be outweighed by a more important government objective: ?improving the health of women and children, and equalizing the provision of preventive care for women and men so women who choose to do so can be part of the workforce on an equal playing field with men.?
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